Agony & Ivy

I wish Chicago Sun-Times columnist Joe Cowley would stick to telling White Sox general manager Ken Williams how to do his job.

In Thursday's Sun-Times, Cowley, a former longtime White Sox beat writer, advised Cubs fans to not get their hopes up in regards to the North Siders signing St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols. He suggested that any Cubs fan who dares dream of Pujols donning a Cubs uniform in 2012 should "pick up the nearest stapler and punch it into your chest to help snap you back to reality."

I was thinking today about the Chicago Sun-Times' Joe Cowley's preseason column predicting that the White Sox were on the verge of overtaking the Cubs as Chicago's favorite baseball team. The scene Saturday at the stadium formerly known as Comiskey Park would indicate otherwise.